Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Swaziland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ultimate Spinach to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eric Dolphy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
Frankie Knuckles,
DNA,
Minor Threat,
Ultravox,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dawn Penn,
Jeff Mills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Radio Birdman,
Gang Green,
Newcleus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Janne Schatter,
Vainqueur,
The Raincoats,
Television Personalities,
Howard Jones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-101,
Rites of Spring,
Piero Umiliani,
Gabor Szabo,
Main Source,
Boogie Down Productions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cybotron,
Soft Machine,
The Move,
Thee Headcoats,
Intrusion,
Essential Logic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cymande,
Technova,
Minny Pops,
Symarip,
Scan 7,
Roger Hodgson,
the Swans,
Arab on Radar,
Joy Division,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Ice-T,
The Cramps,
Kayak,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Evens,
Dual Sessions,
Toni Rubio,
The Golliwogs,
Con Funk Shun,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.